Full-Time
Technical Program Manager
Kunai
51-200 employees
End-to-end product development for enterprises
No salary listed
Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Proven experience running large, multi-workstream technical programs, ideally cloud migrations.
- Strong command of RAID logs, dependency mapping, and milestone tracking in complex environments.
- Experience reporting into formal portfolio or program governance structures.
- Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, including workload placement and cost and egress tradeoffs between them.
- Familiarity with data-residency and compliance constraints in regulated industries; financial services experience is strongly preferred.
- Comfort managing multiple stakeholder groups at once, including vendors, engineers, and business owners.
- Experience in regulated or highly governed environments.
- Ability to communicate clearly, hold technical teams accountable without writing code, and remain calm when priorities shift.
- Bachelor's Degree, or three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible technology work experience for each missing year of college in addition to the minimum experience required.
- Own program-level planning across multiple concurrent migration workstreams, including sequencing, milestones, and critical path.
- Run RAID and dependency management, surfacing risks and blockers before they become problems.
- Track milestones and delivery health across workstreams and report status through portfolio governance.
- Align technical teams, business stakeholders, and cloud vendors around a shared plan and shared expectations.
- Challenge estimates and timelines by understanding the technical tradeoffs behind them.
- Translate between engineering teams and business stakeholders so decisions are made with the right context.
- Manage governance cadence, including steering committee updates, status reporting, and escalation paths.
- Identify cross-workstream dependencies early and coordinate resolution across teams.
- Flag compliance, data-residency, or cost implications of technical decisions that could affect timeline or scope.
- Experience running large, multi-workstream technical programs involving cloud migrations.
- Financial services experience.
Kunai is a software development partner that helps established companies and fast-growing startups turn ideas into scalable, shipped digital products. It combines engineers, designers, and product managers to take concepts from napkin sketches to live products used by millions, offering end-to-end execution and long-term partnerships. Unlike some vendors that work in silos, Kunai emphasizes enduring collaboration—evidenced by a long-term relationship with Capital One that led to a partial acquisition and a portfolio spanning four major payment networks, four top-ten US banks, seven Fortune 500 technology companies, and ten unicorn startups. The company’s goal is to turn ideas into reliable, scalable products and maintain lasting relationships that help clients grow."
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
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Headquarters
San Ramon, California
Founded
2001
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- PwC says Kunai strengthens AI, cloud, data, and core-banking delivery.
- PwC expected to absorb Kunai's 500-person workforce, preserving revenue capacity.
- Banks want faster modernization, and Kunai sells directly into that urgent budget cycle.
What critics are saying
- PwC integration after August 2025 strips Kunai of independent brand and autonomy.
- Accenture, EPAM, and Cognizant outspend PwC on banking engineering talent.
- Top engineers leave after acquisition, collapsing Kunai's delivery edge within 12 months.
What makes Kunai unique
- Kunai built financial-services product engineering for banks, payments, and core systems.
- PwC announced Kunai acquisition on August 6, 2025, validating its domain depth.
- Its 2015 Capital One partial acquisition proved enterprise credibility with regulated buyers.
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Benefits
Fully remote
Flexible hours & vacation time
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Company News
PwC US has agreed to acquire nearly all assets of Kunai, a software consultancy specializing in AI and cloud-first platforms for the financial services sector. This strategic acquisition supports PwC's commitment to enhancing client services.
PwC US announces agreement to acquire Kunai.
Sandeep Sood, Founder and CEO of Kunai, has spent the past two decades building elite software teams. In 2015, he sold his first agency, Monsoon, to Capital One, where he spent the next three years gaining firsthand experience in how financial products are developed within a large corporation. This experience now informs the work at Kunai, enabling the company to deliver even more effective solutions.Kunai develops full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Leveraging a team of skilled designers, developers, and product managers, Kunai transforms ideas from initial concepts to large-scale deployment. By focusing on modernization and emerging industry trends, the company helps clients optimize their operations and position themselves for long-term growth in the evolving financial landscape.We discuss the future of AI, fintech, and stablecoins.What inspired you to start Kunai after your experience at Capital One, and how did your time at Monsoon and Capital One shape your approach to building Kunai?At Monsoon, I spent twenty years working with financial institutions from the outside – as a vendor. After our acquisition by Capital One, I learned what it was like to sit at the other side of the table – as an executive who managed teams and vendors